MIKE GRACIA
President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.
President Nixon (seated) and H.R. Haldeman.
It was on this day in 1995.
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
ROSS SIMPSON
It was on this day in 1940.
During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended on this
day in 1945.
On this day in 1938.
Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)
CAMILLE BOHANNON
It was on this day in 1940, as Paris became occupied, loud speakers
announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 pm.
The main gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
The Nazis also opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-
occupied Poland on this day in 1940.
Robert Dean Stethem (November 17, 1961 – June 15, 1985)
Stethem was a U.S. Navy Seabee who was murdered by Hezbollah terrorists
while aboard flight 847 during the hijacking.
The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars and Stripes"
as the national flag of the United States. The Resolution stated "Resolved:
that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red
and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, that would
represent a new Constellation."
On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed
June 14 "Flag Day" as a commemoration of the "Stars and Stripes."
Donald John Trump is 71 years old today. He is the 45th, current President of the United States.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of
Normandy, France on this day in 1944. Approximately 400,000
Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.
Israeli armored vehicles in Beirut during the 1982 invasion on this
day in 1982.
It was on this day in 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened
in Camden, NJ.
ROSS SIMPSON
The destruction along Main Street in Johnstown, Pa., following the collapse of the South Fork Dam killing 2,209 people on this day in
1889.
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)
American poet Walt Whitman is best known for his collections Leaves of Grass
and Drum-Taps. His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" was written on the
occasion of the death of Abraham Lincoln. He dropped out of school at the
age of eleven and, to support his family, worked as a law office assistant and
a newspaper apprentice.
It was on this day in 2003.
Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph (C) is escorted from
the Cherokee County Jail for a hearing in federal court.
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is 87 years old today. He was born in San
Francisco, California.
Clint Eastwood from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966).
Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry (1971).
Clint Eastwood worked as a lifeguard, a caddy, and a grocery clerk while growing
up. He became a household name after playing Rowdy Yates on the long-running
CBS-TV Western series Rawhide (1959 – 1965).
